This publication presents a learning review of Oxfam Pilipinas’ Strategic Partnership Model (SPM) that reflects on its experiences, challenges, and lessons from the past five years. It offers insights from Oxfam Pilipinas and its partners on the evolving dynamics of development partnerships, local leadership, and transformative collaboration. The review aims to inform and strengthen future strategic partnerships for impactful social change in the Philippines.

Beyond the numbers, SHE Rises: Stories of Change captures stories of women finding their strength, men becoming allies, youth leading change, and health providers embracing inclusive care under the Sexual Health and Empowerment project. It highlights communities challenging harmful norms and systems, demonstrating that meaningful change is possible. Let us listen to their stories, honor their experiences, and carry forward the lessons from this remarkable journey.

This report delved into the challenges and opportunities for just transition in Southeast Asia’s transport and agricultural subsectors, given that together, these sectors contribute twenty four percent (24%) of total emissions in the region, and interventions to decarbonize these subsectors are beginning to take shape. This study aims to (1) assess the extent to which current policies, practices, and initiatives in the region related to transport and agricultural subsectors incorporate transition principles, and (2) propose recommendations for a more inclusive and transformative transition.

Unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) is performed around the world disproportionately by women and girls. Oxfam is committed to alleviating this burden of unpaid care and domestic work and to elevating the discourse on the value of UCDW’s contribution to society. As part of its continuing efforts to contribute to enhanced public policy around UCDW, Oxfam partnered with the University of Notre Dame Keough School of Global Affairs’ Integration Lab (i-Lab) to conduct a pilot study and populate Oxfam’s Care Policy Scorecard in the Philippines in order to determine milestones and gaps in the country’s unpaid care policy landscape.

The Food Hives to Nourishing Cities Project is being implemented by Oxfam Pilipinas, together with partners Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA) and AGREA Agricultural Communities International Foundation Inc. The project aims to establish regenerative, just, and nourishing food systems. This document is an abridged version of a report prepared by Dante Dalabajan for Oxfam Pilipinas.

The Responsible Energy Initiative Philippines: Case for Action report provides a situational analysis of where there are risks of adverse ecological and social impacts in utility-scale renewable energy value chains, how such risks are currently being managed, and where there is potential for renewable energy system actors to take collaborative action to create the requisite norms for responsible practices.

Research Brief The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the dependence of our societies on systems of care and caregiving to survive and thrive. This support system, however, has been mostly unpaid if not totally unrecognized for far too long. Its resulting negative effects have disproportionately affected women and girls around the world, especially in the […]

Overview The world faces twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest. Women and girls, Indigenous Peoples, people living in poverty […]

This study looks into the disaster risk reduction and management policy framework and practice in the Philippines, particularly the budget performance of the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (LDRRMF) provided for by Republic Act 10121 or the PDRRM Act of 2010.

In December 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei, China. COVID-19 has spread rapidly across the world affecting various families and communities. Stringent measures such as the imposition of nationwide lockdowns have led to severe economic and social consequences, especially for low-income countries like the Philippines. Moreover, these measures increased vulnerabilities […]